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Foster Care Awareness Month Underscores Need for Culturally Connected Homes & Community Support

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Foster Care Awareness Month Underscores Need for Culturally Connected Homes & Community Support
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May is Foster Care Awareness Month, a time to recognize children in care and the families and communities who support them. For the Chickasaw Nation, support extends beyond providing safe, temporary homes — it is about strengthening Chickasaw communities and families, and providing opportunities which support and preserve First American well-being and culture.



Joni Wellington, Chickasaw Nation Director of Family Preservation, has spent years walking alongside that mission. While the work is d

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